Gaza hospital faces shortage in equipment, blood units

As injured continue to pour into Gaza’s Shifa hospital, physicians struggle with limited equipment, lack of medicine and beds. ‘We’re not sure we would be able to save the critically injured,’ one doctor says.

The Shifa hospital in Gaza can barely keep up with the inflow of casualties wounded in clashes with the IDF throughput the day, as doctors try to function despite the severe lack of medical equipment and beds.

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Dr Jumaa al-Saka, who works at the hospital told Ynet, “We received seven dead people and 40 injured, including seven who were in critical condition. Most of them were wounded by gunshots or from ricochets.”